My dad!

OH Princess, prayers coming immediately!! Can you explain to me what that is? SOrry I have no idea what that means?

Love you, Suzee

Oh suzee no problem well idiopathic means unknown cause of the disease. I had a typo in my post above it's actually pulmonary fibrosis but anyways pulmonary fibrosis is a lung disease that is scarring or thickening of the lungs! Sometimes you do know the cause but sometimes you don't.

The treatment are:

For some people, medications such as corticosteroids and cytotoxic drugs may help reduce swelling (inflammation).

Ongoing clinical studies are experimenting with new treatments that have been shown to help some people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Oxygen may be necessary in patients who have low blood oxygen levels.

Lung rehabilitation will not cure the disease, but can help maintain exercise capacity (the ability to exercise without breathing difficulty).

Some patients with advanced pulmonary fibrosis may need a lung transplant

He will be getting oxygen soon!

And the prognosis is Some patients may improve when they are treated with corticosteroids or cytotoxic drugs, but in most people the disease can get worse even with treatment. This worsening can happen quickly, or very slowly.

He goes to the doctors often and he goes to a support group and he is going to participate in the study!

Also this isnt a disease that will go away he will have it for the rest of his life!

I hope this helps and some of it I copied and pasted hehe!

My prayers for you and your Dad. From time to time, I've experienced respiratory illness and I don't know of anything worse than the feeling of not being able to take that next breath.

God bless

Thanks Suzee and love letters for your prayers!

Thank you Puppy, now I understand!!! I am so glad that he is seeing docs and getting oxygen and participating in the study!!! I will continue my prayers for your family every day!!!

Am sending big healing hugs!!!

All my love, Suzee

Suzee you are welcome I have no problem explaining it! I am also glad he is seeing docs and getting oxygen and participating in the study!!! Thanks for keeping my family in your prayers every day!

Thanks for the healing hugs!

Much love!

Love Letters do you still have your respiratory illness?

princess , i'll b praying for you & your dad . he's so lucky to have u as his daughter . i'm sure he must know that . it's great that u have tried to educate yourself so much about his disease . it helps so much not to b in the dark . takes alot of the fear away when we undersand what is wrong with a loved one's health .take care of both of u , sweetie ..

Thank you Barri so much for praying for me and my dad! Yah I like to try educate myself, it does help to understand the disease he has and it helps to not be in the dark about it! Thanks again!

princess I am praying for your father, I hope he gets better soon

may God bless him and you

love
Mo